Gallup: Obama job approval negative for first time
by Rossputin | 4:42 am, March 18, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday, the Gallup Organization’s daily tracking poll of presidential job approval showed a 47% disapproval to 46% approval for Tuesday, March 16th, representing the first time in that particular series that Obama had a net disapproval.
There has also been a consistent downtrend in the weekly job approval series.
Gallup’s chart of the series still shows approval ahead of disapproval by 1% as I write this because they chart a 3-day rolling average. Still, if you’re a Republican or simply someone who opposes Obama’s megalomaniacal drive for a government takeover of everything, the trend is your friend.
I note data in the survey which will no doubt bring out the cries of “racism!” from Obama apologists and sycophants: Support among whites is at a new low of 39% whereas support by non-whites is at 70% (tied for the low).
Critically, support by independents is near a new low at 44%. (43% was reported once back in September, though that number seemed strangely low at the time.) Another potentially troubling sign for Obama is crashing support among married people – support dropping further and faster than among single people. As the US Census Department notes, married people are far more likely to vote than single people. Finally, Obama’s approval level is inversely proportional to the age of the group being asked; he is most approved of by young people and least by old people. Again, it’s a maxim in politics that one’s likelihood of voting is proportional to one’s age. Another big problem for The One.
With these trends, it’s no wonder that Barack Obama is rushing as fast as possible to pass his socialist agenda. With a little more decline in his approval ratings, even Democrats won’t have to fear opposing him.
